A Facebook campaign to dish out vigilante justice in Peru has gone viral
- after hundreds of people started posting pictures and videos of
themselves catching and punishing petty criminals. More and more fed-up
Peruvians are taking the law into their own hands and recording their
often humiliating acts of retribution on their cameras or mobile phones.
The 'Catch Your Thief' movement took off after one neighbourhood decided
to stop calling the police after a crime, warning they would 'lynch'
the culprits instead.
Social media users quickly began posting their own home-made footage
showing alleged thieves and pickpockets receiving their comeuppance,
often at the hands of a baying mob of revenge-seekers. Punishments range
from being stripped naked and whipped in public and being forced to
perform tough military exercises to even being force-fed raw chili
peppers.
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